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More data on sulfites needed to “fully confirm” safety
The current combined safe level for seven sulfites used as additives in wine and other foods is sufficiently protective for consumers. But EFSA will revisit this conclusion when data...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
14 April 2016
Food contact materials: building on scientific developments
EFSA’s experts recommend refining the safety assessment of substances used in food contact materials, including the introduction of a more comprehensive approach to estimate...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food contact materials
28 January 2016
Isoflavones in food supplements for post-menopausal women: no evidence of harm
A comprehensive review of the available scientific evidence has revealed no indication that isoflavones at levels typically found in food supplements cause harm to post-menopausal...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food supplements
21 October 2015
Food enzyme thrombin is safe
The enzyme thrombin is derived from blood of pigs or cattle. It is used in food processing together with fibrinogen, a protein also obtained from the blood of these animals, to bind...
Food ingredients and packaging
17 September 2015
Bridging the knowledge gap on non-plastic food contact materials
Did you know that plastics and some ceramics used in food contact materials are regulated at European level and evaluated by EFSA for safety but a wide range of other materials –...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food contact materials
13 May 2015
No consumer health risk from bisphenol A exposure
EFSA’s comprehensive re-evaluation of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure and toxicity concludes that BPA poses no health risk to consumers of any age group (including unborn children,...
Food ingredients and packaging
Bisphenol A
21 January 2015
Bisphenol A opinion adopted; to publish in January 2015
EFSA’s experts have finalised and adopted their scientific opinion on the risks to public health from bisphenol A (BPA) in foodstuffs. The milestone follows a comprehensive risk...
Food ingredients and packaging
Bisphenol A
12 December 2014
Food contact materials expert network holds first meeting
Scientific experts from Member States are meeting in Parma from 12 to 14 November for the first meeting of EFSA’s Food Ingredients and Packaging Network. The experts are gathering to...
Food ingredients and packaging
Non-plastic food contact materials
5 November 2014
Food enzyme opinions published in full
EFSA has published the full text of its first food enzyme evaluations following an agreement on business information between the European Commission and the enzyme producer. Summaries...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food enzymes
3 September 2014
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